newbie with obsoletely no idea!

[Guest giovanni776]

Hi i am a newbie, although i used this site pre to buying a second-hand pulse 1.

Now the teckie stuff will go right over my head, but at least the basic stuff was OK for me to judge what phone i wanted to have.

My phone is a pulse 1 [obviously] and the details are... Firmware version 2.1 baseband 6383 kernel version 2.629 perf. FLB mod 1.7 and its a U8220 .None of this means much to me but to you guys i assume it is of help in replying to me questions.

I wanted to know where does this stand my phone in the update charts? I ask this because ram on the phone is low and i wanted to be able to move the stuff to my SD card.

Also i believe that google earth is available for Android phones, and firstly if it is i do not have the space on my card to download it,and that is if it is even possible to download it on version 2.1?

Please forgive my ignorance, no doubt my questions are answered somewhere on the topics, but they confuse me, so I thought direct questions would be better,that way I can beg my son to carry out ever advice is offered.. cheers

John

[Guest Richard_Arkless]

If it is running flb 1.7 then it means its got a custom version of the 2.1 update which came for our phones, as for updates you have got a choice, stick with flb 2.1 or install cynaogenmod 2.2 which is a custom version of 2.2 so its newer than 2.1 but NOT EVERYTHING WORKS

Did the sd card come with the phone or did you get a new one, I ask this because a2sd (apps installed to sd) might already be setup for you

As for google earth, I dont see it in cyanogenmod or flb 1.7 market

[Guest giovanni776]

If it is running flb 1.7 then it means its got a custom version of the 2.1 update which came for our phones, as for updates you have got a choice, stick with flb 2.1 or install cynaogenmod 2.2 which is a custom version of 2.2 so its newer than 2.1 but NOT EVERYTHING WORKS

Did the sd card come with the phone or did you get a new one, I ask this because a2sd (apps installed to sd) might already be setup for you

As for google earth, I dont see it in cyanogenmod or flb 1.7 market

Hi Richard, it did have a sd card 2mb in it, but the deal included co pilot 8 so i got hold of a 4mb card so as to put co pilot on. still have the original card and have tried it after reading your response but it seems to not do anything different. Also phone arrived with a green screen and FLB written across it,son downloaded some live wallpaper,MAC and something else, now cannot find the original green screen! and lastly Adw.launcher occasionally when I start playing with the phone comes up with "stopped working" as does terminal Emulator. bar these issues the phone works fine and does not freeze up, although it did do that for the first 24 hours or so after arriving.

[Guest h3dshot]

Hi Richard, it did have a sd card 2mb in it, but the deal included co pilot 8 so i got hold of a 4mb card so as to put co pilot on. still have the original card and have tried it after reading your response but it seems to not do anything different. Also phone arrived with a green screen and FLB written across it,son downloaded some live wallpaper,MAC and something else, now cannot find the original green screen! and lastly Adw.launcher occasionally when I start playing with the phone comes up with "stopped working" as does terminal Emulator. bar these issues the phone works fine and does not freeze up, although it did do that for the first 24 hours or so after arriving.

i take it you mean 2gb and 4gb:P and yeah those problems youve mentioned are normal, happens in the every day running of the phone, especially with adw launcher, its some along the lines of 'adw.launcher.process.acore has stopped responding unexpectidly' but not to worry it will just restart and your good to go again :P

also welcome to the pulse forums :D

[Guest giovanni776]

i take it you mean 2gb and 4gb:P and yeah those problems youve mentioned are normal, happens in the every day running of the phone, especially with adw launcher, its some along the lines of 'adw.launcher.process.acore has stopped responding unexpectidly' but not to worry it will just restart and your good to go again :P

also welcome to the pulse forums :D

Thanks h3dshot. OK no need to worry about that launcher then, just downloaded a system check app "quick system check" runs ok, but says of the a2sd bit, "no information" So assume i have something missing that need reloading/downloading?

PS sorry yes I meant 2gb to 4 gb, and not 2mb to 4mb

Edited November 28, 2010 by giovanni776

[Guest SpankyHam]

Easiest way to check if a2sd is working would be to open the Android Terminal and type:

su

a2sd check

This should then tell you where apps are being installed. If they are not being installed to the SD card, then you should see something like "To run apps from external type ..."

[Guest AntonioPT]

giovanni776, did you partition your SD card? You can't use A2SD without partitioning it...

[Guest giovanni776]

giovanni776, did you partition your SD card? You can't use A2SD without partitioning it...

No, I did not, thanks , will give that a try

[Guest giovanni776]

Update...

I ran this:

$ su

# cd /data

# wget http://64.105.21.209/bin/lib/droid/sdsplit

# chmod 555 sdsplit

# exit

The exit command didn't close terminal.

following this, i then proceeded to do this:

$ su

# /data/sdsplit -nd -fs size

Like the other commands, the root was already included in the command line, but it came up with an incorrect directory message, so I added # at the start (note that I didn't have to do that for any of the other commands), and entered 3096M where the size is. It did not come up with an error message, but it also did not prompt me to confirm the action. I left it for a few minutes and rebooted, but it hadn't done anything.

I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I've tried not including the -nd part of the command, but to no avail.

[Guest Richard_Arkless]

Update...

I ran this:

$ su

# cd /data

# wget http://64.105.21.209/bin/lib/droid/sdsplit

# chmod 555 sdsplit

# exit

The exit command didn't close terminal.

following this, i then proceeded to do this:

$ su

# /data/sdsplit -nd -fs size

Like the other commands, the root was already included in the command line, but it came up with an incorrect directory message, so I added # at the start (note that I didn't have to do that for any of the other commands), and entered 3096M where the size is. It did not come up with an error message, but it also did not prompt me to confirm the action. I left it for a few minutes and rebooted, but it hadn't done anything.

I was wondering if someone could help me, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, I've tried not including the -nd part of the command, but to no avail.

I dont have a clue what that does, maybe partitions the sdcard for you

please can you type su and then a2sd check in the terminal on your phone and make sure there is a star next to programs run from sd card in the apps section and also private programs run from the sd card under the private apps section